Letters to the Editor
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No difference
If you saw that happen to a chicken or lamb or goat, it would have been a little gross, but you'd have eaten it. There's no difference between raising a dog for food and raising a chicken for food. That's just a raw reality. It even sounds like the dog had a good time and was treated well. What I object to are tightly caged animals who suffer during their short lives before they die, cruel and inefficient slaughter methods, poor husbandry, poaching and exploitation of endangered species.
In this country, horsemeat is banned from the table. They've had to loosen it a big for zoos, because the closest thing to zebra meat is horsemeat and lions need to eat something. Horses still continue to be raced to death and premarin horses continue to be used in Canada for medicine sold here in the US. But, sentimentality prevents the meat from being used to feed people.
It makes no sense. Why is one animal more deserving of our love than another? Why not love all of them?
And what's with the Chinese being so provincial? If they want to host the world at their table, they'd better learn what we're willing to eat.